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How Big Telecom Tried To Kill Net Neutrality Before It Was Even a Concept
An anonymous reader writes This opinion piece at Ars looks at the telecommunications industry's ability to shape policy and its power over lawmakers. "...as the Baby Bells rolled out their DSL service, they saw the cable industry's more relaxed regulations and total lack of competition and wanted the same treatment from the government. They launched a massive lobbying effort to push the Clinton and Bush administrations, the Federal Communication Commission, and Congress to eliminate the network sharing requirement that had spawned the CLEC market and to deregulate DSL services more broadly. Between 1999 and 2002 the four companies spent a combined $95.6 million on lobbying the federal government, according to data from the Center for Responsive Politics, which would rank them above such trade group lobbying behemoths as the Chamber of Commerce and the American Medical Association in total lobbying expenditures for the years. The companies also spent millions to lobby the public directly through aggressive advertising and public relations campaigns."
So tell me: instead of insinuating that there are logical fallacies in my argument, what exactly *are* the logical fallacies in my argument?
Poisoning the well; red herring; appeal to fear; appeal to motive; bulverism.
Astroturfing of course exists, and sucks; however to poison the well prior to any evidence in this thread of it happening even existing, was lame and suggests an ulterior motive on your own part (not just telling people to be cautious of all arguments, but basically implying that if anyone in this thread is against net neutrality, they're astroturfing so just ignore it and don't even consider their arguments). Not only that but your implication was that the big evil multinational conglomerate corporations who are anti net neutrality are the only ones that astroturf.